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20 self-hosted Flickr alternatives

Flickr is a photo and video hosting and community platform for uploading, organizing, sharing and discovering images. It provides albums, tagging, search, licensing options, comments and privacy controls for amateur and professional photographers.

Alternatives to Flickr

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

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109k stars6.4k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo management app with automatic AI tagging, face recognition, maps, and powerful search to organize and find photos and videos in your library.

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40k stars2.3k forkslast commit Actively maintained

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic image search.

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8k stars382 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Pixelfed is a free, open-source, ActivityPub-based photo sharing social network that federates with the Fediverse for decentralized social media.

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7k stars868 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery that scans your filesystem into albums, generates fast thumbnails, supports RAW/EXIF, and enables multi-user sharing links.

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6.5k stars471 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Lychee is a self-hosted photo management system to upload, organize, view, and share photos and albums with a modern web interface.

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4.2k stars374 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo gallery for organizations and individuals; supports large libraries, albums, plugins, themes, permissions and a developer API.

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3.8k stars480 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source Nextcloud app for managing photos and videos with timeline, AI-based tagging, albums, map view, metadata editing, and on-demand HLS transcoding.

Memories screenshot

3.8k stars163 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

PiGallery2 is a fast, read-only, directory-first web photo gallery with search, maps, sharing links, and optional video playback, optimized for Raspberry Pi-class hardware.

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2.2k stars256 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted personal photo gallery for uploading, organizing, and browsing photos with albums, EXIF parsing, geolocation map view, and Live/Motion Photo support.

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1.9k stars135 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted photo management system for large folder-based libraries with fast full-text search, metadata indexing, and on-device face/object detection.

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1.8k stars91 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down

Open-source self-hosted image sharing app with multi-format uploads, nested tags, deduplication, ShareX support, and Docker deployment.

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1.6k stars42 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

bewCloud is a modern, lightweight alternative to Nextcloud/ownCloud for managing files, photos, notes and news in a simple web interface.

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1.2k stars55 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted open-source web gallery for personal photos and videos with tagging, mobile-friendly UI, face detection, and reverse image search for discovery.

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1.2k stars98 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source PHP-based image and video hosting platform for building Imgur/Flickr-style sites with S3/external storage, Docker support, multi-user accounts and admin tools.

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945 stars78 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Sigal is a lightweight Python static gallery generator that builds responsive image galleries with themes, thumbnails, EXIF and video support, plus CLI tools to build and preview sites.

943 stars172 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

WeddingShare is a self-hosted web app for creating shareable wedding photo galleries where guests can view and upload pictures, including QR-code sharing and admin review.

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882 stars62 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted personal photo gallery focused on speed, seamless zoom, and non-destructive filesystem-based collections with fast indexing and progressive loading.

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599 stars15 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

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318 stars129 forkslast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Flickr actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 19 of 20 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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